Privacy
Your naming decisions.
How the current names.dev search and sharing experience handles your information. Updated October 2, 2026.
- Search
- Your brief, preferred endings, and budget are used to generate and evaluate names and retrieve registrar and marketplace evidence. Relevant inputs are sent to the configured AI and domain providers. Their own processing policies also apply. Public search responses may be cached briefly to make repeated searches faster.
- Saved names and history
- Saved names and recent searches stay in your browser until you remove them or clear browser storage. They are not an account backup and do not automatically synchronize between devices.
- Shared shortlists
- Creating a share link uploads the title, brief, selected domains, and preferences you review. Anyone with the complete link can read that shortlist. Links expire after 30 days. The browser that created a link stores a separate revocation key so you can stop sharing sooner. Availability and prices are checked separately; they are not implied by a saved name.
- Operating metrics
- The search operating report retains daily aggregate counts for 30 days, including completed searches, returned acquisition paths, cache hits, source issues, and shared shortlist activity. These aggregate records omit briefs, domains, IP addresses, and customer identifiers.
- Usage analytics
- We count page views and a few actions in the naming workspace with Vercel Web Analytics: a search starting or finishing, a refinement, a name being saved, and a registrar or marketplace link being opened. It sets no cookies. Vercel tells visitors apart with a daily hash it discards after 24 hours, and records the country, browser, device type, and the site that linked here. The counts never include your brief, names, domains, share links, or contact details. Page addresses are reduced to the type of page, and actions carry only labels such as the kind of search or which provider was opened. Browsers that send Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track are not counted.
- Assistants
- Public assistants connect directly to names.dev. Our private Rufio connection is used for platform operations and is separate from customer access. Connecting a customer assistant does not give it access to private operating tools.
- Purchases
- Provider links take you to the registrar or marketplace, whose checkout and privacy policies apply. A search, shortlist, or provider link does not purchase or reserve a domain.
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